Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage ; 5)

A study of the thought behind the ancient biographies of holy men. Frontmatter Acknowledgments (page ix) Introduction (page xi) PART I Biography and Tradition: The Myth of Genre (page 1) ONE Graeco-Roman Biography: Form and Function (page 3) TWO Biography and Paradigms of the Divine Sage (page 17) THREE Literary Aspects of Biography (page 45) PART II Myth, History, and the Elusive Holy Man: Two Approaches (page 67) FOUR Eusebius' "Life of Origen": Faces of History (page 69) FIVE Porphyry's Life of Plotinus : Interior Familiars of Myth (page 102) SIX Conclusion: The Creative Use of History (page 134) Selected Bibliography (page 151) Index (page 164)